Quotes About Refinement

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

We won't lower ourselves to your level, but if it makes you happy to destroy our elegance, then go ahead!

Always walk with style and finesse.

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In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

With grace and beauty, feel.

Personal sophistication never goes out of style.

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Ceea ce numim cultur? e în realitate un lung proces de selecÈ›ie È™i de cernere.

I think the great thing about humans in general is we're always improving things.

There is a common misconception that the human brain is the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. This may be true if we think of the entire nervous system. However, the human neocortex itself is a relatively new structure and hasn't been around long enough to undergo much long-term evolutionary refinement.